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Thursday, January 21, 2021
Mosaic image gets large, 400 hours and 41 panels
Nine years and over 350 hours of exposures, 41 panels and 31 high resolution sub-panels stitched together seamlessly. This mosaic image spans about 45 x 18 degrees of sky, the original resolution is 14.000 x 41.000 pixels.
Previous version of this mosaic image can be seen here, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-cassiopeia-to-cepheus-eight-years.html
From cassiopeia to Cepheus
Click for a full size image, it's really worth it! (3700 x 1400 pixels)
Image is in mapped colors from a light from the ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue. NOTE, there is an image of the Moon at the same scale in lower left corner.
The heart and Soul nebulae are at upper left corner and the IC 1396 with the Elephant's Trunk Nebula at center right. There are many well known objects in this massive mosaic image including the Bubble and Cave Nebulae at just a little right from the center. There are about six million stars in this composition.
Orientation
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
All my new astronomical photos from the Winter season 2014-15
Melotte 15 is a small part of the large mosaic image
A poster format collection from all of my photos from Winter 2014-15
Be sure to click for a large image, 2500 x 4000 pixels and 8MB
Astro Anarchy Observatory Winter 2014-2015
Images in the poster above, from upper left to lower right
- NGC 2175, The Monkey Head Nebula, a blog post HERE
- NGC 1491, a blog post HERE
- Messier 13, a blog post HERE
- Messier 3, a blog post HERE
- IC 417, a blog post HERE
- Pelican Nebula mosaic, a blog post HERE
- IC 443 SNR, a blog post HERE
- Cederblad 214, a blog post HERE
- Soul Nebula, IC 1848 mosaic, a blog post HERE
- IC 410, a blog post HERE
- The Propeller Nebula, a blog post HERE
- IC 1805, The Heart Nebula, a blog post HERE
- The Great Wall of Cygnus, a blog post HERE
- NGC 1795, a blog post HERE
- The Tulip Nebula, Sh2-101, a blog post HERE NASA APOD
- Sharpless 115 & Apell 71 PN, a blog post HERE
- Pickering's Triangle in O-III light only, a blog post HERE
- Sharpless 132, Sh2-132, a blog post HERE
- IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, a blog post HERE
- Abell 85 (CTB1) SNR, a blog post HERE
- Sharpless objects 232, 231, 233 and 235, a blog post HERE
- NGC 281, a blog post HERE
Some highlights of the season past
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- I won a third place at the Astronomy Photographer of the year 2014 competition by the Royal Observatory of Greenwich.
Over 2500 images from 51 countries participated.
- I also got one NASA APOD published (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) at November 15, the Tulip nebula.
- The Telegraph selected my photo as a one of the best amateur astronomy photographs of the past four years.
- Suomen Kuvalehti wrote a large article at the last issue of the year 2014 about my photographing, eleven pages total. (SK 51-52 19.12.2014, pages 1 and 42-51)
- Daily Mail published an article about the experimental 3D conversions of my astronomical photos.
I was invited as one of the speakers at the NEAIC conference, New York, Spring 2014.
Two large public artworks from my photos get revealed at 2014. A very large, over 10 x 3m, photographic print on aluminium "Cirrus of Cygnus" and the "Path of Swans", 4 x 2m, on aluminium. Beside public works, many of my photos ended up to a private homes.
- I participated to two art exhibitions with my astronomical photos, one in Helsinki and another here in Oulu.
One of the most interesting tasks at 2014 was a cooperation with the vocal ensemble Cappella pro Vocale. This cross art production was a mixture of an old vocal music and the astronomical images. The production took place at the church of St Thomas. My photos get projected with three powerful projectors on walls and sealing and everything was matched with the music carefully.
Image copyright Antti Nevalainen
Image copyright Jaakko Nurro
Image copyright Jaakko Nurro
- Optikfestival in Skara, Sweden
- An exhibition in Galleria Kajaste, Oulu, Finland
Friday, April 10, 2015
My last imaging project for this Winter season, a high resolution mosaic image of the Heart Nebula
This part of the mosaic image was published at March 9, 2015. Blog post about it can be seen HERE
Monday, March 9, 2015
The heart of the Heart nebula, melotte 15
Melotte 15
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Image is in mapped colors from an emission of the ionized elements. Golden areas
are from emission of sulfur and hydrogen, bluish hues are from ionized oxygen.
And even closer
INFO
An experimental starless image
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This experimental starless photo shows the object in light of an ionized hydrogen alone.
Image in visual colors
Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements, R=80%Hydrogen+20%Sulfur, G=100%Oxygen and B=85%Oxygen+15%Hydrogen to compensate otherwise missing H-beta emission. This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Cederblad 214 as an experimental 3D stereo pair
HOW?
All the original 2D-images are imaged by me, if not otherwise stated.
Due the huge distances, no real parallax can be imaged for a volumetric information.
I have developed a method to turn any 2D-astronomical image to a various 3D-formats. The result is always an approximation of the reality, based on some known scientific facts, deduction and an artistic impression.
What are the known facts?
By using a scientifically estimated distance of the object, I can organize right amount of stars front and behind the object. (as then we know the absolute position of the object at our Milky-way)
Stars are divided to groups by apparent brightness, that can be used as a draft distance indicator, brighter the closer. There is usually a known star cluster or a star(s) coursing the ionization and they can be placed in right relative position to the nebula itself .
Generally emission nebulae are not lit by the starlight directly but radiation from stars ionizing gases in the nebula. Hence the nebula itself is emitting its own light, at wavelength typical to each element. Due to that, and the thickness of the nebula can be estimated by its brightness, thicker = brighter. Nebulae are also more or less transparent, so we can see "both sides" at the same time.
Many other relative distances can be figured out just carefully studying the image, like dark nebulae must be front of bright ones. The local stellar wind, radiation pressure, from the star cluster, shapes the nebula, For that reason, pillar like formations must point to a cluster. ( Look previous image, above this text.) Same radiation pressure usually forms kind of cavitation, at the nebulosa, around the star cluster, by blowing away all the gas around the source of stellar wind. The ionized oxygen, O-III, emits blueish light, it requires lots of energy to ionize. Due to that, the blue glowing area locates usually near the source of ionization, at the heart of the nebula. This and many other small indicators can be found by carefully studying the image itself.
Using the known data, I can build a kind of skeleton model of the nebula. Then the artistic part is mixed to a scientific part, rest is very much like a sculpting.
Many times images of nebulae looks like paintings on the canvas. I like to show a real nature of those distant objects as a three dimensional shapes floating in a three dimensional volume. This is a great way to show, how I personally see astronomical targets as a 3D-forms inside my head.
3D-experiments seems to increase a public interest to a subject, as you might have noticed.
I have studied my astronomical images much deeper, than ever without 3D-modeling.